Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World (Thinking from Elsewhere)

By: Robert Desjarlais and Rasmus Dyring and Harmandeep Kaur Gill and Lone Grøn and Maria Louw and Cheryl Mattingly and Lotte Meinert and Maria Speyer and Helle Sofie Wentzer and Susan Reynolds Whyte

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Synopsis: Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and other, dependence and independency, frailty and charisma, notions of good and bad aging, and norms and practices of care in old age? And how can imagistic inquiries offer grounds for critique? Cutting between ethnography, phenomenology and art, this volume offers a powerful contribution to understandings of growing old. The images created in words and drawings are used to complicate rather than simplify the world. The contributors advance an understanding of care, and of aging itself, marked by alterity, spectral presences and uncertainty.Contributors: Rasmus Dyring, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Lone Grøn, Maria Louw, Cheryl Mattingly, Lotte Meinert, Maria Speyer, Helle S. Wentzer, Susan Reynolds Whyte

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 272 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780823299652
Related ISBNs:: 9780823299638, 9780823299645
Publisher:: Fordham University Press
Date of Addition:: 09/20/22
Copyrighted By:: Fordham University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Medicine
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Cheryl Mattingly
Edited by:: Lone Grøn
Foreword by:: Lisa Stevenson